Hay-carrier.



D. M. MOTHERWELL.

HAY CARRIER. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 30, 1908.`

Patented June 15, 1909.

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DAVID M. MOTHERWELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITMAN d: BARNES MFG. CO., OF AKRON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

HAY-CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID M. MOTHER- wELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Carriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to hay carriers. Its object is `to provide an economical and durable device of this character adapted for use either with a draft rope or wire cable, having capacity for a gradual or easy trip without shock or strain to the parts as it enters or leaves its stop, and having a combined rope and wire cable clamp for automatically taking out twists in the draft rope or in a wire cable.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a device embodying my invention in its preferred form, wherein- Figure l is aI side view of the hay carrier as a whole, showing the lift-ing pulley in locked position during transit of the carrier from one point to another upon the overhead track; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view, partly in section and partly in end plan, on line 2 of Fig. 1, illustrating the position assumed by the detents or grappling device in locking a load to the carrier; Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating the position assumed by the parts when in unlocked position; Fig. I is part-ly a sectional and partly a side View of the parts shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is partly a sectional and partly a side view of the parts shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a view of the stop showing a portion of the overhead way or track in section and illustrating the method of attaching the stop; Fig. 7 is a side viewA of the combined draft rope and cable clamp illustrating its use in securing a wire draft cable therein; Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view of the same parts; Fig. 9 is a cross-section on line 9 of Fig. 7 Fig. l0 is a view similar to Fig. 7 showing the clamp and illustrating its use in securing a draft rope in position; and Fig. l1 is a cross-section on line l1 of Fig. 10.

In the drawings, a represents a track or overhead way upon which the carrier runs, and to which the stop s is bolted or otherwise suitably secured.

The frame of the carrier comprises an upper section b and lower section c, swiveled Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led January 30, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 413,450.

together in the usual manner, suspended from the track a by trucks c7. On the forward end of the frame c is secured the draft pulley f. The frame c consists of two similar halves secured together by the bolts 0, c2, c3 and c4, these boltsbeing threaded on the ends, and held in place by suitable nuts. Itigidly secured to the bolts c2, c3 is a bridge g, which encircles the tilting dog 7L, which is pivotally secured at its forward lower end to opposite inner edges or sides of the bridge g preferably by the bolt or shaft 7i. The dog 7L is adapted to rock upon the bolt 7L as an axis or pivot. It is provided with a bellmouth 7b2 adapted to strike the stop s at an angle and encircle it when drawn to the upright position shown in Fig. 5. Upon the lower rear portion of the dog a downward extension 7i3 is provided with oppositely disposed beveled edges 704, as shown in Figs. l and 2.

Each of the two similar halves of the frame c are cut away on opposite sides so as to provide registering openings c5, the opposite ends of each opening being provided with oppositely disposed laterally projecting ears. Across each opening and extending in the direction of travel of the carrier a bolt is secured to the ears, the bolt in one opening being indicated by c6 and the bolt in the other by c7. Upon the bolts c6, 07 are pivotally mounted a pair of detents j, 7c, each similar in construction, provided with the upward projections j 76, having the inner surfaces l7'2 7c2 beveled, as shown in Figs. 2 and 8, and so arranged in relation to the dog 7L that a gradual or wedge-like engagement between the surfaces 73 and the surfaces 702 is provided when the detents are opened a certain distance. Vhen the detents are drawn apart from under the dog the latter slides gradually between them, pushing them apart gradually. The opening and closing movement of the detents y' 7c, as they rock upon their axes or pivots c c7, substantially at right angles to the path of travel of the carrier, is limited by means of the slot js on the central projection jf and a knob 7c3 on the corresponding central projection 705 projecting therethrough adapted to travel from end to end of this slot and contact with the end edges of it. The length of the slot jg is such that the projections j 7c may be rocked apart only a distance suflicientito allow the projection 7a3 on the tilting dog 7L to slide gradually into the openings between them. Curved fingers or hooks j4 704 are provided on the lower portion of the detents y' c, adapted to engage the rim of the lifting pulley whenever the projections /r are rocked sufficiently far apart to admit the projection /L of the tilting dog 7L between them. The inward rocking motion of the uaward projections y" 7c is also limited by the slot 7'3 and projection 7c3 to permit the said projections to rock under the opposite edges of the downward projection fr, thereby supporting the dog h in its lifted or elevated position.

My invention also provides means for correcting or removing the twists orkinks in the draft rope or cable, which, without such means, might affect the perfect working of the carrier by interfering with the entry of the hoisting pulley into the bell-mouth in proper position to operate automatically the grappling locking devices above described. I take the twist out of the draft rope or cable by fastening the rear end in a clamp device depending from the carrier and havin g a rotary or universal oint movement, so that when power is applied to the draft rope or cable to hoist the pulley the kinks or twists will run out at the end, turning this rotary clamp. I prefer to construct this device by recessing the two halves of .the frame c to form a socket e when brought together and fastened by means of the bolts c* threaded and provided with nuts, as shown in Fig. l. This socket embraces a knob or ball m of the clamp member a, forming a ball-and-socket swivel joint. On the inner surface of the clamp member a is a vertical groove or concavity a large enough to embracethe larger ropes or cables and within it a similar, but smaller, vertical groove or concavity a2 is formed between projecting parallel ribs n3 at adapted to embrace cables or ropes of smaller diameter than those of n, this groove being projected somewhat forward of the groove a.

The upper portion of the clamp member a may be conveniently hooded to afford protection to the extreme end of the draft rope or cable. Gn opposite sides of the clamp member n suitable ears 0 are provided having openings in registration with corresponding openings in similar ears o on a cooperating clamp member 79. Through these openings the threaded bolts g g are passed and secured by nuts q2 g3 so that the two clamp members 'a and 19 may be fastened together and tightened about a rope between them. The clamp member p is reversible, that is, one side of it has a vertical channel groove or concavity similar to a with a horizontal rib p in registration with a corresponding recess 222 on the opposite inner surface of a with which it cooperates to deiect the rope and obtain a grasp thereon, and the other side a vertical channel, groove or conJ cavity similar to n2 having a horizontal rib p3 in registration with the recess p2 with which it cooperates to deflect the small size ropes or cables when this member is reversed, to obtain a grasp' thereon. Thus the clamp j? may be locked to n by means of g g and g2 g3, with either side coperating with n, depending on the size of the rope or cable to be fastened. Once fastened, the rope itself will turn out the twists and kinks by rotating the clamp members in the socket e..

The operation of my device is as follows. The carrier being arrested at the loading point and the load secured in the usual manner to the hoisting pulley z', one end of the rope or cable is clamped in the rope clamp. Tf a wire cable or small cable be used the member p is bolted to n, as shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, but if a rope or large cable is used the member p is reversed and bolted, as shown in Figs. l0 and l1. The other end of the rope is passed over pulley f and attached to power, whereupon any kinks or twists in the rope or cable are taken out by the automatic turning of the clamp in socket c. The hoisting pulley thus rises into the bell-mouth of the carrier, strikes the central projections /35 which rise before it' and swing the upward extensions 7c from under the dog L. This operation is performed without jar or shock because the curved or beveled surfaces jg k2 and ht prevent any sudden fall of the dog. Generally, however, the parts assume the position shown in Fig. 2 and the hoisting pulleyV is locked to the carrier by the hooks ,7'4 7:4 held in position by the lower portion of the dog h. Continued application of power on the rope or cable draws the carrier along the overhead way to the stops, which, striking within the bell-mouth h2 of the dog, rocks the latter up from between the detent extensions j 7c" when the weight of the load brings them together and frees the pulley from the'hooks j4 7a4.

T am aware that many modifications of my invention will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art, and I do not wish Y to be understood as limiting myself to the device described and shown, but

That I claim is:

l. In a hay-carrier, a frame, a pair of detents pivoted therein adapted to rock alternately in and out of'engagement with a hoisting pulley, a tilting dog pivoted on said frame adapted to rock downward and to spread the upper ends of said detents apart and interlock said detente and pulley, and

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device pivoted therein, having upward extensions above the pivoted points provided with oppositely inclined bevel faces tapering inward from top to bottom and a tilting dog pivoted on said frame adapted to rock downward and to spread said upward extensions apart, the surface of said dog contacting with said extensions being beveled to form a wedge like gradual engagement during the downward movement of the dog.

3. In a hay-carrier, a bell-mouthed swivel irame adapted to receive a hoisting pulley, a pivoted grappling device for locking said pulley to the frame, a pivoted dog having an upward extension for engaging a fixed stop and a downward extension for spreading apart the upward extensions of said grappling device to lock the same, the contacting surfaces of said dog and upward extensions being beveled to form a gradual wedge-like engagement, whereby said pulley is gradually locked to said frame, substantially as described.

4. In a hay carrier, a frame having a socket formed near its rear end, a rope or cable clamp having a knob or projection adapted to be locked within the socket to form a universal joint connection between the clamp and frame, clamp members, one of which is reversible, and means for alternately locking and unlocking them about ropes or cables of different diameters substantially as described.

In a hay carrier, a frame, a rope or cable clamp having a universal joint connection therewith and clamp members, one ot which is reversible, each provided with a plurality of curved recesses, those on the same member being of different diameters corresponding in diameter with those on the other member, and means for alternately locking and unlocking them substantially as described.

G. In a hay-carrier, a frame, a pair of detents pivoted therein adapted to rock alternately in and out of engagement with a hoisting pulley, a tilting dog pivoted on said frame adapted to rock downward and to spread the upper ends of said detents apart and interlock said detents and pulley, and upward above the same to free the pulley and detents, the contacting surfaces of said dog and detents being beveled, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto atiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID M. MO'II-IERVVELL.

Vitnesses:

ARTHUR GREENE, CHARLES L. HINE. 

